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Paraphrasing

This document discusses summarizing and paraphrasing texts. It explains that summarizing involves determining the essential ideas, main idea, useful information, and key words or phrases from a text while keeping the summary shorter than the original. Good summarizing techniques include extracting the key ideas, concentrating on important details, and looking for keywords and simplifying ideas. It is not good summarizing to copy everything from the text, write ideas word-for-word, include irrelevant information, add one's own analysis, or make the summary longer than the original text.

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Paraphrasing

This document discusses summarizing and paraphrasing texts. It explains that summarizing involves determining the essential ideas, main idea, useful information, and key words or phrases from a text while keeping the summary shorter than the original. Good summarizing techniques include extracting the key ideas, concentrating on important details, and looking for keywords and simplifying ideas. It is not good summarizing to copy everything from the text, write ideas word-for-word, include irrelevant information, add one's own analysis, or make the summary longer than the original text.

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SUMMARIZING

PARAPHRASING
SUMMARIZING
• Summarizing is often used to determine the
essential ideas in a book, article, book
chapter; an article or parts of an article. These
essential ideas include the gist or main idea,
useful information, or key words or phrases
that help you meet your reading purpose.
What is not summarizing?
X Write down everything
X Write down ideas from the text word-for-
word
X Write down incoherent and irrelevant
ideas;
What is not summarizing?
X Write down ideas that are not stated in
the text; or
X Write down a summary that has the same
length or is longer than the original text.
FORMAT
MAIN IDEA
BODY
CONCLUSION
PARAPHRASING
• Summarizing is often used to determine the
essential ideas in a book, article, book
chapter; an article or parts of an article.
These essential ideas include the gist or
main idea, useful information, or key words
or phrases that help you meet your reading
Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not.

__________ 1. Sean copied everything from the book.


__________ 2. Thomas extracted the key ideas in the
text.
__________ 3. Carmela concentrated on the important
details.
Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not.

• __________ 4. Anita looked for keywords and


phrases.
• __________ 5. Jenna simplified ideas.
• __________ 6. Rona revised the main idea.
Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not.

• __________ 7. To add more information,


Alessa added her analysis and comments to the
ideas of the author.
• __________ 8. Maria wrote down the general
and specific ideas of the text.
Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not.

• __________ 9. Sean added some of his related


research to the information presented in the
text.
• __________10. Lalaine extended the message
of the text and included some of her
interpretations.

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